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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Balance Constantly Diffuse Fuse Healthy Maintain Mind Processes Tone Unity
Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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